digest ferry ferry digest
SeaFrance folds as new Channel service begins
in brief
• Stena Line boosted annual car traffic on the Harwich– Hook of Holland route by 4.4 per cent in 2011.
• The first of Scandlines’ pair of 169m newbuilds, Berlin, was launched at P+S Werften in Stralsund in December.
The 28,883gt Norman Spirit sails a new Channel service five times a day
The Commercial Court in Paris liquidated SeaFrance in January following a European Commission ruling that a bailout by the French government was illegal. The court also dismissed bids by an employee’s co- operative and a DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs joint venture. However, DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs pressed
Overcrowded ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea
Rabaul Shipping’s Japanese- built Rabaul Queen sank on 2 February in rough conditions between Kimbe, on the island of New Britain, and Papua New Guinea’s second largest city, Lae. So far, 246 passengers have been
The Cork to Swansea ferry operator, Fastnet Line, ceased operation in February. Noel Murphy, chairman of owners, West Cork Tourism Co-Operative, commented, “The funds were there, private and public, to allow us to continue but, despite the best efforts of
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ahead with an independent venture to establish a Dover to Calais route. From 17 February the route has been serviced by LD Lines’ Norman Spirit which, since November 2011, had been deployed as a fourth vessel on DFDS’ route between Dover and Dunkirk. In due course a second ship will be added to the new route.
rescued but there were at least six fatalities and over 100 people are still missing. The ferry could officially accommodate 310 people, but the owner reported that 362 people were on board. Passengers say the ship was overcrowded and running on just one engine when it sank about 16km offshore.
Fastnet Line loses fight for survival
all involved, state aid rules and red tape choked off the ferry’s chances of sailing again in March 2012.” The West Cork Tourism Co-Operative presented an investment proposal to a court- appointed examiner in early 2012 but the operation ›››
• France’s Alu Marine Shipyard has won a bid to build an innovative 20m inland waterways passenger vessel. It will be operated by Syndicat Intercommunal des Transports du Calaisis on the Calais Canal.
• Green Ship of the Future, a co-operative Danish project, has initiated a low emission ropax ferry study.
• Oregon State University Foundation has sold Black Ball Ferry Line to the firm’s management team. Coho has served the Victoria, Canada, to Port Angeles, USA, route for 52 years.
• STX Finland’s Rauma yard has begun production of Finferries’ 65m double- ended ferry, which is due for delivery in 2013.
• The JJ Sietas yard in Germany has filed an insolvency petition with the Hamburg Municipal Court. Construction work will continue while a creditors’ inspection is carried out.
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